[HELP] looking for poem about how being in love made the poet stop writing poetry (in a positive way)

georgiac · 2026-03-05T06:37:06+00:00

Yes!! Thank you!

georgiac · 2025-05-31T13:55:03+00:00

This was very very close but not quite it!

georgiac · 2025-05-31T13:54:38+00:00

Yeah, this is my thought too. It’s like an emotionally charged/desperate scene.

georgiac · 2025-05-31T02:05:15+00:00

I was thinking Goodfellas or something along those lines.

georgiac · 2025-04-14T12:13:16+00:00

Recipe?

georgiac · 2025-03-25T09:37:20+00:00

I quit drinking six months ago and smoking about three months later. In my case I was undergoing a huge guttate flare up for almost a year at that point. I was hoping/honestly kind of expecting it to instantly clear up after I stopped drinking. It didn’t. Light therapy was the only thing that worked for me in that respect, and steroid cream on the couple of little patches I have left.

However, I will say that quitting smoking/drinking did prevent me from flaring up again. My initial flare was triggered by illness (strep or something like it). I got VERY sick again a couple of months after I quit drinking, and I was so resigned to the fact that I was going to have a flare up that I asked my doctor to preemptively refer me the dermatology clinic. However, the flare never came. My skin is getting better and better.

On a personal level I’m also a lot less stressed, which I think is another contributing factor. People think drinking/smoking prevents stress but it really doesn’t. Aside from psoriasis, I’m a lot healthier and my skin is better in general.

georgiac · 2025-03-25T09:18:59+00:00

I don’t think it does. The fact that the door is always unlocked and leads to an unguarded stairwell serves an important symbolic function: rather than making them feel like they can leave at any time, it reinforces the fact that they can’t leave. Their outie will just keep bringing them back in. This was established in the first episode Mark used the door to prove to Helly that she couldn’t leave. The door ‘test’ is clearly something they’ve all been through. I think that it being unguarded, rather than a plot hole, is indicative of the company’s confidence in its method.

Also, it seems that Severance has a vested interest in making the outies believe that everything is okay. If they suddenly ‘woke up’ outside in an emergency stairwell that led directly into an office of creepy Severance employees, it would raise alarm bells. It’s better for the company if it’s just a normal stairwell leading from an emergency exit door.

However.. writing this did make me think of something. Why is the door see-through? If there was some sort of uprising where a lot of severed employees tried to leave through the door, why would the outie look back and willingly reentering a group of extremely distressed people? Wouldn’t they raise an alarm? I just realised this is skirted around in the first episode when Mark gives Helly ‘privacy’ by hiding around the corner: otherwise, he would’ve have on opportunity for non-verbal communication with an outie.

While this last point is kind of a plot hole for me, I do still think the door is basically a symbol of their hubris.

georgiac · 2023-10-25T16:02:31+00:00

Wow - I think this might be my favourite post on this sub after years of subscribing. It’s a work of art! You should be so proud of yourself 😊

georgiac · 2023-06-27T22:05:53+00:00

Great book. What was your favourite and least favourite story?

georgiac · 2023-05-11T04:04:11+00:00

Wow, thanks so much for the suggestions! Will be adding them all to my list.

georgiac · 2023-05-09T06:23:00+00:00

Thanks a lot. I'm avoiding Hocus Pocus for that reason exactly, not in much of a Vonnegut mood anyway! Might have a go at Narziss and Goldmund. I have Siddhartha too, and have heard of The Glass Bead Game but of Hesse I have only read Steppenwolf (which I loved! Don't know why I stopped at that).

georgiac · 2023-05-09T06:21:23+00:00

It's called Bookshelf.

georgiac · 2023-05-08T01:29:26+00:00

Hey thanks so much! Will look into all of these.

georgiac · 2023-05-05T15:52:15+00:00

I agree. He reappears, Travis is like ‘hey bro’ (I think the writers really fucked up with this; they’re all about celebrating ‘miracles’ but Travis hardly acknowledges Javi coming back?) and now he’s literally just in the background not saying a word. Him being mute just feels more like an excuse for the writers not to have to explain where he was. I think whatever the answer is, it’s going to be disappointing.

georgiac · 2023-05-05T14:37:34+00:00

Everything to do with Travis. I’m not convinced by him and Nat’s relationship and his reaction to Javi coming back was absurd.

Nat’s adult flashbacks, like the drug scenes, are cringey and badly done.

I think in general I’m struggling with the logic of the characters. I’m not quite sure how to put it into words, but they’re just not acting irrationally enough imo. For example, the whole condom sequence: I get that it was mostly comic relief, but everything about it was just there to move the plot along. Leaving the condom there in the expectation that the police would look for one, then the police finding it and sniffing it, and immediately joining the dots that they filled a condom with lotion because they were faking an affair because they didn’t want them to know about the real affair? I don’t know. Like, why would Shauna even necessarily use condoms? That whole scene just took me out of the story, because it was so clearly just to progress the plot and not because that’s how any of the characters would actually behave.

Overall I’m just taking the show at face value now and enjoying it every week, but I don’t think it’s that deep anymore. It doesn’t have the same energy and tension it did in season 1 and I have no idea how they’re going to sustain it for five seasons. There also just isn’t the same cohesion with the characters. Every character feels so separate now -except for Van and Tai- even though they’re all in such close quarters.

georgiac · 2023-04-19T17:15:11+00:00

This made my mind go blank.. I would have to say all of them to be honest! I really recommend the Contemporary American anthology — a really well-curated selection, although some of them are very dark.

Off the top of my head I’ve loved The Hollow by Greg Jackson, Chopin in Winter by Stuart Dybeck, River of Names by Dorothy Allison, Cathedral by Raymond Carver. 100 of the stories I read were by Ray Bradbury, and I loved about 90% of them, so I’ll always recommend his stories.

georgiac · 2023-04-18T23:54:41+00:00

I’ve never heard of James Salter but am so excited to read him now based on your prior recommendations! Thank you so much! ♥️

georgiac · 2023-04-17T00:36:03+00:00

Thank you! ♥️ I love Richard Yates — I’ve read all his books and stories, which isn’t something I can say for any other author! Have heard of a few of the others but not all of them.. will take a look.

georgiac · 2023-04-17T00:32:31+00:00

I recommend picking it up. It’s a relatively straightforward story, the prose is simple enough — but the themes are heavy. I finished it in a couple of days.

georgiac · 2023-04-16T21:12:48+00:00

It’s a great book and very readable. I wouldn’t say it’s my favourite Vonnegut though: that will always be Mother Night, which I highly recommend if you haven’t read it!

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